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Editor-in-chief
George E. Ponchak (S’82 - M’83 – SM’97-F’08) received the B. E. E. degree from Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH in 1983, the M.S.E.E. degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH in 1987, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 1997.
He joined the staff of the Communications, Instrumentation, and Controls Division at NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH in 1983 where he is now a senior research engineer. In 1997-1998 and in 2000-2001, he was a visiting professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He has authored and co-authored over 150 papers in refereed journals and symposia proceedings. His research interests include the development and characterization of microwave and millimeter-wave printed transmission lines and passive circuits, multilayer interconnects, uniplanar circuits, Si and SiC Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits, and microwave packaging.
Dr. Ponchak is a Fellow of the IEEE and an Associate Member of the European Microwave Association. Dr. Ponchak is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions Microwave Theory and Techniques, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters from 2006-2010, and he was Editor of a special issue of IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques on Si MMICs. He founded the IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems and served as its Chair in 1998, 2001, and 2006. He is the General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium and he was the Technical Program Chair of the 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium. He served as Chair of the Cleveland MTT-S/AP-S Chapter (2004-2006), and he has chaired many symposium workshops and special sessions. He is a member of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium Technical Program Committee on Transmission Line Elements and served as its Chair in 2003-2005 and a member of the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee 12 on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Packaging and Manufacturing. He served on the IEEE MTT-S AdCom Membership Services Committee (2003-2005) and was elected to the MTT-S AdCom in 2010. He received the Best Paper of the ISHM’97 30th International Symposium on Microelectronics Award.
Associate Editors
N. Scott Barker (S'94--M'99) received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Virginia in 1994 and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1996 and 1999 respectively.
From 1999 to 2000 he was a staff scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory. In January 2001 he joined the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests include applying MEMS and micromachining techniques to the development of microwave and millimeter-wave, and submillimeter-wave circuits and components.
Prof. Barker has served on the MTT-21 technical committee on RF-MEMS since 2000 and is currently the committee chair. He is also a member of the MTT-S Speakers Bureau and has served for many years on the IMS Technical Program Review Committee. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE MWCL from 2008 to 2010.
Prof. Barker is a recipient of the 2003 NSF CAREER Award, the 2000 IEEE Microwave Prize, and First and Second Place in the Student Paper Competition of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium.
Bertan Bakkaloglu (M’94, S’08) received his PhD from Oregon State University in 1995. He joined Texas Instruments Inc. Mixes Signal Wireless Design Group, Dallas, TX working on analog, RF and mixed signal front ends for wireless and wireline communication ICs. He worked on system-on-chip designs with integrated battery management and analog baseband functionality as a design leader. In 2004 he joined Arizona State University, Electrical Engineering Department, Tempe, AZ as an associate professor. His research interests include RF and PA supply regulators, RF synthesizers, biomedical and instrumentation circuits and systems, high speed RF data converters and RF built-in-self-test circuits for communication ICs. Dr. Bakkaloglu has been a technical program chair and steering committee member for IEEE RFIC conference and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.
Prof. Chen received his B.S. degree from Department of Electronics, Peking University in 1988, and PhD degree from University of Maryland, College Park, USA in 1993. From 1994 to 1995, he was with NTT LSI laboratories, Atsugi, Japan, engaging in the research and development of functional quantum effect devices and heterojunction FET's (HFET's). From 1996 to 1998, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, carrying out research on high-speed device and circuit simulations. Dr. Chen then joined the wireless semiconductor division of Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, USA, in 1999 working on RF power amplifiers used in dual-band GSM/DCS wireless handsets. Prof.
Chen joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in Nov. 2000, where he is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. At HKUST, his research has focused on board-level and chip-level microwave passive devices, wide bandgap gallium nitride (GaN) power devices and ICs, GaN MEMS technologies, and microwave circuit design.
Prof. Chen is a senior member of IEEE. He currently serves as a Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is an oversea editor for Japanese Journal of Applied Physics and a member of IEEE EDS Compound Semiconductor Devices and Circuits Technical Committee.
Deukhyoun Heo received the B.S.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from Kyoungpuk National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea, in 1989, the M.S.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. in 2000. In 2000, he joined the National Semiconductor Corporation, where he was a senior design engineer involved in the development of silicon RFICs for cellular applications. Since fall 2003, he has been an associate professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. He has primarily been interested in RF/microwave/opto transceiver design based on CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, and GaAs technologies for wireless and wireline data communications, battery-less wireless sensors and intelligent power management system for sustainable energy sources, adaptive beam former for phased array communications, low power high data rate wireless link for biomedical applications, and the multilayer module development for system-in-package solution. He has around 76 publications, including 18 peer-reviewed journal papers, and 60 international conference papers. Dr. Heo was the recipient of the 2000 Best Student Paper Award presented at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS). He is the recipient of National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2009. He has been a member of Technical Program Committee of IMS and International Symposium of Circuit and Systems (ISCAS) and has served as an associate editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II: EXPRESS BRIEFS from 2007 to 2009
Christophe Fumeaux (M'03, SM’09) received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1992 and 1997, respectively.
From 1998 to 2000, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the School of Optics, University of Central Florida, Orlando. In 2000, he joined the Swiss Federal Office of Metrology, Bern, Switzerland, as a Scientific Staff Member. From 2001 to 2008, he was a Research Associate and Group Leader with the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics (IFH), ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. During the Fall of 2005, he was a Visiting Lecturer with the Laboratory of Sciences and Materials for Electronics, and of Automatic (LASMEA), University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. In 2008, he joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Adelaide, Australia, as an Associate Professor. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 papers in refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings. His current main research interest concerns computational electromagnetics in the time domain for numerical analysis of microwave circuits, antennas and optical micro/nano-structures.
Dr. Fumeaux was the recipient of the ETH Silver Medal of Excellence for his doctoral dissertation. He served as Chair of the IEEE Swiss AP-S/MTT-S/EMC-S Chapter (2006–2008), and since 2010 serves as Chair of the IEEE South Australia AP-S/MTT-S Chapter. He was the co-recipient of the outstanding paper award of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) in 2004.
John Papapolymerou received the B.S.E.E. degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1993, the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1999-2001 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Arizona, Tucson and during the summers of 2000 and 2003 he was a visiting professor at The University of Limoges, France. From 2001-2005 and 2005-2009 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor, respectively, at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is currently a Professor. He has authored or coauthored over 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research interests include the implementation of micromachining techniques and MEMS devices in microwave, millimeter-wave and THz circuits and the development of both passive and active planar circuits on semiconductor (Si/SiGe, GaAs) and organic substrates (liquid crystal polymer-LCP, LTCC) for System-on-a-Chip (SOC)/ System-on-a-Package (SOP) RF front ends.
Dr. Papapolymerou is the Chair for Commission D of the US National Committee of URSI. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters from 2006-2008 and as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 2004-2009. During 2004, he was the Chair of the IEEE MTT/AP Atlanta Chapter. He was the recipient of the 2009 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award, the 2009 Georgia Tech School of ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the 2004 Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award, the 2002 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, the best paper award at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Technology (ICMMT2002), Beijing, China and the 1997 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructional Assistant Award presented by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), The University of Michigan Chapter. His students have also been recipients of several awards including the Best Student Paper Award presented at the 2004 IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, the 2007 IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship, and the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate Scholarship/Fellowship.
Dr. Quan Xue (IEEE Member’02, Senior Member’04) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 1988, 1990, and 1993, respectively. In 1993, he joined the UESTC as a Lecturer. He became an Associate Professor in 1995 and a Professor in 1997, where he was awarded as the distinguished academic staff for his contribution in development of millimeter-wave components and subsystems. From October 1997 to October 1998, he was a Research Associate and then a Research Fellow with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1999, he joined the City University of Hong Kong, where he is currently an Associate professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering. He serves as the Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory (Hong Kong) of Millimeter-waves of China. He has authored or co-authored over 160 internationally referred papers and over 60 international conference papers. His current research interests include microwave passive components, active components, antenna, microwave monolithic integrated circuits (MMIC), and radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC). He is the Region 10 Coordinator of IEEE MTT-S AdCom.
Jae-Sung Rieh received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1991 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1999.
In 1999, he joined IBM Microelectronics, Essex Junction, VT, USA, where he was involved in the development of 120 GHz SiGe BiCMOS technology. In 2000, he moved to IBM Semiconductor R & D Center, Hopewell Junction, NY, USA, where he was responsible for the development of the 200 GHz and 350 GHz SiGe HBT technologies. Since 2004, he has been with the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, where he is currently an associate professor. His major interest lies in the mm-wave and terahertz devices and circuits.
Dr. Rieh is a recipient of 2004 IBM Faculty Award and a co-recipient of
2002 and 2006 IEEE EDS George E. Smith Award. He served as the Conference Chair for 2007 IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF), and has been working as a technical program committee for IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) and IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM). He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters from 2006 to 2009.
Costas Sarris received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002. He is an Associate Professor and the Eugene V. Polistuk Chair in Electromagnetic Design at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto. His research interests are in the area of numerical electromagnetics, with emphasis in high-order, multiscale/multi-physics computational methods. He is involved with basic research in novel numerical techniques, as well as applications of time-domain analysis to wireless channel modeling, wave-propagation in complex media and meta-materials, electromagnetic compatibility/interference (EMI/EMC) problems and modeling under uncertainty.
Prof. Sarris was the recipient of the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Government in 2007 and the Gordon R. Slemon (teaching of design) award from the ECE Department of the University of Toronto. He was the co-recipient of student paper awards at the 2001 and 2009 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium and the 2008 Applied Computational Electromagnetics conference.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (2007-2009) and a Technical Program Committee co-chair for the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation. He is the Chair of the Sub-Committee on Time-Domain Methods of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium and was the Guest Editor of the IEEE Microwave Magazine Special Issue on Time-Domain Methods for Microwave CAD (April 2010).
Ching-Wen Tang (S’02–M’03–SM’07) received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli, Taiwan, in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communication engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1996 and 2002, respectively.
In 1997, he joined the RF Communication Systems Technology Department, Computer and Communication Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan, as an RF Engineer, where he developed low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) multilayer-circuit (MLC) RF components. In 2001, he joined Phycomp Taiwan Ltd., Kaohsiung, Taiwan, as a Project Manager, where he continues to develop LTCC components and modules. Since February 2003, he has been with the Department of Communications Engineering, National Chung Cheng University (CCU), Chiayi, Taiwan, where he is currently a Professor. He also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Center for Telecommunication Research, National Chung Cheng University. His research interests include microwave and millimeter-wave planar-type and multilayered circuit design, and the analysis and design of thin-film components.
Dr. Tang has published over 80 papers and holds 22 patents on microwave circuits and architectures. He was received the Second Y.Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award of Far Eastern Y.Z. Hsu Science and Technology Memorial Foundation in Communication & Optoelectronics Category, Taiwan, Dec. 31, 2003, the Marquis Who's Who in the World, USA, 2006, the Excellent Work of Research Award from Changhwa-Yunlin-Chiayi University & College Alliance, Taiwan, 2006, the Excellent Award of Electrical Engineering from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in Kaohsiung Section, Taiwan, 2007, the ITRI Highly Cited Patent Award, Taiwan, 2007, and the CCU Young Scholar Research Award, Taiwan, 2010. He was also the Member of the International Program Committee (IPC) for the IASTED International Conference on Antennas, Radar and Wave Propagation from 2006.
Wendy Van Moer received the Engineer and Ph. D. degrees in applied sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. She is currently an Associate professor with the Electrical Measurement Department (ELEC), VUB. Her main research interests are nonlinear measurement and modeling techniques for medical and high-frequency applications. She has published over 100 related conference/journal articles.
She was the recipient of the 2006 Outstanding Young Engineer Award from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society of which she became a member in 1997 and a Senior member in 2007. Since 2007 she has been an Associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and Co-Guest Editor of the IEEE I²MTC 2010 Special.
Dr. Ming Yu, IEEE Fellow, received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, in 1995. In 1993, while working on his doctoral dissertation part time, he joined COM DEV, Cambridge, ON, Canada, as a Member of Technical Staff. He was involved in designing passive microwave/RF hardware from 300 MHz to 60 GHz for both space and ground based applications. He was also a principal developer of a variety of COM DEV’s core design and tuning software for microwave filters and multiplexers, including computer aide tuning software in 1994 and fully automated robotic diplexer tuning system in 1999. His varied experience also includes being the Manager of Filter/Multiplexer Technology (Space Group) and Staff Scientist of Corporate Research and Development (R&D). He is currently the Chief Scientist and Director of R&D. He is responsible for overseeing the development of company R&D Roadmap and next generation products and technologies, including high frequency and high power engineering, electromagnetic based CAD and tuning for complex and large problems, novel miniaturization techniques for microwave networks. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada. He holds NSERC Discovery Grant from 2004-2013 with Waterloo. He has authored or coauthored over 90 publications and numerous proprietary reports. He holds 8 patents with 6 more pending.
Dr. Yu is an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer from 2010 to 2012. He serves MTT committees as the Vice Chair of MTT-8 and served as Chair of TPC-11. He is a member of editorial board of many IEEE and IET publications. He was the recipient of the 1995 and 2006 COM DEV Achievement Award for the development a computer-aided tuning algorithms and systems for microwave filters and multiplexers.
Lei Zhu (S’91–M’93–SM’00) received the B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees in radio engineering from the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University), Nanjing, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Research Engineer with the Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. From 1996 to 2000, he was a Research Fellow with the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Since July 2000, he has been an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include planar filters, planar periodic structures, planar antennas, numerical EM modeling, and deembedding techniques. He has authored or coauthored over 190 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including 18 in the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and 32 in the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. His papers have been cited more than 1580 times by others with the H-index of 22 (source: ISI Web of Science). He was an Associate Editor for the IEICE Transactions on Electronics (2003–2005). Dr. Zhu has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters since 2006, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques since 2010. He has been a Member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) Technical Committee 1 on Computer-Aided Design since June 2006. He was a General Chair of the 2008 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series (IMWS’08) on Art of Miniaturizing RF and Microwave Passive Components, Chengdu, China, and a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair of the 2009 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC’09), Singapore. He was the recipient of the 1997 Asia–Pacific Microwave Prize Award, 1996 Silver Award of Excellent Invention from the Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries Ltd., and 1993 First-Order Achievement Award in Science and Technology from the National Education Committee, China.
Herbert Zirath received his MSc and PhD degree from Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden, in 1980 and 1986, respectively. He is since 1996 a Professor in High Speed Electronics at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, MC2, at Chalmers University. He became the head of the Microwave Electronics Laboratory during 2001. At present he is leading a group of approximately 50 researchers in the area of high frequency semiconductor devices and circuits. His main research interests include MMIC designs for millimeterwave applications based on both III-V and silicon devices, SiC and GaN based transistors and circuits for high power applications, device modeling including noise and large-signal models for FET and bipolar devices, and InP-HEMT devices and circuits. He is working part-time at Ericsson AB as a microwave circuit expert. He is author/co-author of more than 300 refereed journal/conference papers, and holds 4 patents.